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By Clara Kramer, Stephen Glantz

ISBN-10: 0061864536

ISBN-13: 9780061864537

“A superlative memoir of survival….Few wartime memoirs express with such harrowing immediacy the evil of the Nazi genocide.”

Daily Telegraph (London) “One Girl’s tale of Survival,” Clara’s warfare is in response to Clara Kramer’s diary of her years spent hiding in an underground bunker with seventeen other folks through the Nazi career of Poland. within the vintage vein of The Diary of Anne Frank—a heart-wrenching and encouraging tale of a existence lived in worry and cramped quarters—Clara’s War is a real tale of the Holocaust as instructed via a impressive younger lady who lived to endure witness.

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Otto Dov Kulka and Aron Rodrigue, ‘The German Population and the Jews in the Third Reich’, Yad Vashem Studies, 16 (1984), pp. 421–35. 9. Quotations from Kulka and Rodrigue, pp. 430–5. 10. David Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution. ’’. ), Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933–1945, Düsseldorf, 2004 (English translation forthcoming). 11. , 2006. 12. Bankier, quotations pp. 155–6. 13. Longerich, pp. 313–28, quoted phrases, p. 317. 14. Herf, pp. 275–7, quotation p. 277. 15. Kulka and Jäckel, p.

100–1. 53. Martin Broszat, Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik 1939–1945 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1965), 11, 25. 54. , 200 n. 45. 55. , 122. 56. The correspondence between Greiser and Himmler on the subject, dated between 1 May and 3 Dec. 1942, is in the personal file of Arthur Greiser in the Berlin Document Center (thereafter BDC). For a more extended discussion, see my article, ‘Improvised Genocide? The Emergence of the ‘‘Final Solution’’ in the ‘‘Warthegau’’ ’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th Series, Vol.

Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, 3rd edn (London: Edward Arnold, 1993). 6. The comparison becomes even more shallow where the focus shifts from Stalin’s own regime to later ‘Stalinist’ systems. The revelations of the extent of repression in the German Democratic Republic have, for example, prompted simplistic notions of essential similarities between the Honecker and Hitler regimes. See on this the comments of Eberhard Jäckel, ‘Die doppelte Vergangenheit’, Der Spiegel, 23 Dec. 1991, 39–43.

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